World Alliance Of Reformed Churches

The ecumenical movement is out of touch with people in the churches and has "almost ceased to be taken seriously" as a spiritual force, according to the president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

The ecumenical movement is out of touch with people in the churches and has "almost ceased to be taken seriously" as a spiritual force, according to the president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

The World Alliance of Reformed Churches is encouraging member churches that do not ordain women to reconsider their policies and to ensure that salaries of female church employees are in line with those of their male counterparts.

The World Alliance of Reformed Churches is encouraging member churches that do not ordain women to reconsider their policies and to ensure that salaries of female church employees are in line with those of their male counterparts.

Two anti-apartheid campaigners, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and the Rev. Allan Boesak, met U.S. Democratic Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia and David L. Boren of Oklahoma in Cape Town and urged the United States to take a stronger lead in fighting apartheid. "We impressed upon them the need for the United States to take a much firmer lead in terms of pressure on the South African government," Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, told reporters.

More than half the world's Lutherans now have compacts for sharing pulpits and Holy Communion with Presbyterian and Reformed denominations, according to a review of those ecumenical ties. It was made by the Rev. Lewis L. Wilkins of Indianapolis, formerly on the staff of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in Geneva, Switzerland, and presented at a Lutheran-Reformed conference here. However, Lutheran leaders noted that obstacles are still to be overcome before the newly merged 5.

Anti-apartheid clergyman Allan Boesak returned from an abortive trip to China on Friday, saying South Africa's refusal to grant him a passport made it impossible for him to do his church work. Boesak, the mixed-race president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is only able to travel on a travel document valid for two weeks after his passport was withdrawn by the South African authorities. Boesak had intended to go to China for a conference of the China Christian Council.

The Rev. Allan Boesak, facing charges of subversion in connection with his anti-apartheid activities, told his congregation Sunday, "I will resist them to the very end." Boesak said of the government: "They have no God left except the God of their guns. . . . Let them pray to that God." Last Friday, the 39-year-old president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches was charged with three counts of subversion and released on $8,000 bail.

South African anti-apartheid churchman Allan Boesak, who quit the clergy last month over an extramarital love affair, has resigned as president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the group announced today. A statement by the executive committee of the Geneva-based alliance, grouping 175 Calvinist churches around the world with a total 70 million members, said it had accepted Boesak's resignation with regret at a closed session of its annual meeting. Dr.

An unusual endorsement for Dukakis came from a leading South African apartheid critic who was speaking in New York. Dr. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and a founder of the South African anti-apartheid United Democratic Front, lashed out at President Reagan and Vice President Bush in a Sunday sermon to more than 2,000 people at Manhattan's Riverside Church and later to journalists.

Police lobbed tear gas at the feet of World Alliance of Reformed Churches leader Allan Boesak as he led about 200 black protesters in a defiant march against eviction from a rundown shantytown. "Today's action was inexcusable," Boesak told reporters as he wiped his streaming eyes with a handkerchief. "There was absolutely no cause whatsoever to fire tear gas at these people."